Haney’s own News Reporter Pat Turner 
Everyone at R.J. Haney Heritage Village, staff and volunteers are
working flat out to have as much of the Montebello Building as possible
ready for the Grand Opening on July 9th. The outside of the building
will be finished but not all the stores will be “open.”
The Gallery will be open inside the building and displaying the work
of Brent Chudiak and his Secondary School Media Arts class. Twenty, 2 x 3
foot portraits of Secwepemc Elders are on exhibit. A fully restored
Dragon Boat is also on display inside the building. The boat was a
community project involving youth, training, Aspiral Youth, the Shuswap
Association of Rowing and Paddling, the Province of B.C. and the
Government of Canada.
The
distinctive siding on the Bedford Pharmacy and Demers Pool Hall posed a
problem. Who knew how to attach it? One of the Archives volunteers
realized her husband had installed the same siding up in the Yukon, and
so Wayne Peace spent more than two weeks applying it to the walls.
McGuire’s General Store is being stocked with items from the Museum’s collection that
would have been common in such stores in the early 20th Century.
Older members of the community will no doubt recognize some of the
brands and packages they remember from childhood with nostalgia.
Miss
Puff, the Dressmaker, will be “open for business” thanks to a very
generous donation of $10,000 from Fabricland. Also Linda Moorhouse very
kindly donated several examples of period clothing to help furnish the
store. Miss Puff also sold hats in her store, and once again, Wayne
Peach helped out by making the hat stands, using the only one such
example in the Museum’s collection.
We hope to see everyone enjoying the Opening Ceremonies at 10:30 a.m. on July 9th and all the other attractions at the Village on that day. 
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Editor’s Note: New owner George W. Armstrong changed the name of the Observer to the Salmon Arm Observer and the Shuswap Lake Recorder February 5, 1909. Armstrong is pictured at the press in the Bowler hat.
